Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern TimesEduardo A. Velásquez Love and Friendship gathers the reflections of some of today's most preeminent political scientists, philosophers, historians, and students of literature and religion in an investigation of the most influential accounts of love and friendship in Western history. The collection begins with a discussion of classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, moves through a wide array of modern philosophers--among them Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau--and concludes with contemporary, postmodern accounts of love and friendship. Taken together, the essays provide an unprecedented exploration of the most compelling and sovereign human affections and associations. Eduardo Velásquez's marvelous, ambitious project succeeds, as each thoughtful and engaging piece proves the depth of the intimate relationship between psychology and political life. |
Contents
On Socrates Speech in Platos Symposium | 1 |
Hunting Together or Philosophizing Together Friendship and Eros in Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics | 37 |
Michel de Montaigne and His Imaginary Friend | 61 |
Merry Wars and General Incivility Wit Love and Verbal Warfare in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and Austens Pride and Prejudice | 87 |
Godolphin and the Whale Friendship and the Framing of Hobbes Leviathan | 119 |
Locke and the Problem of Friendship in Modern Liberalism | 139 |
Shaftesburys Liberal Enthusiasm | 161 |
Dangerous Liaisons The Relation of Love and Liberty in Rousseau | 183 |
Self Other and Liberty The Superiority of Women in Tocquevilles Democracy in America | 339 |
Two Friendships Schillers Don Karlos and Letters on Don Karlos | 377 |
The Politics of Love and Friendship 1984 and Brave New World | 425 |
Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society | 479 |
God Is Love or Love Is God? Denis de Rougemont and Allan Bloom on the Grounds and Goals of Love | 501 |
Marital Friendship and the New Darwinian Political Science | 533 |
Derrida and Friendship | 549 |
Where the Wild Things Are ReCreation Fall Re and Insurrection in Chuck Palahniuks Fight Club | 575 |
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